Vol. 5, No. 76 Central Plateau Cleanup Starts Transition at Hanford
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Life Extension Programs
Livermore Wraps Customer Requirements Review for W87-1, Holds to 2030 First-Production Date
In the second-to-last week of fiscal year 2020, the National Nuclear Security Administration wrapped up its customer requirements review with the Department of Defense for the W87-1 intercontinental ballistic missile warhead, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said. W87-1, the replacement for W78, is arguably the civilian agency’s most ambitious nuclear modernization project of the 21st […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Judge Strikes Down Ohio AG Lawsuit, Allowing FirstEnergy to Keep Lobbying
FirstEnergy Corp. and Energy Harbor can continue lobbying the Ohio legislature while lawmakers decide what to do with a controversial nuclear bail-out bill before it goes into effect in January, a judge ruled Friday, striking down a lawsuit filed by Attorney General David Yost. The judge said a ban on political spending would be a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
NASA Issues ROD for Soil Cleanup Within its Portion of Santa Susana
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has released its record of decision for cleaning up contaminated soil on its portion of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County, Calif. Like Boeing, and the Department of Energy, NASA is one of three parties responsible for cleanup of the sprawling research site in the Simi Valley. […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
CORRECTION
The story “Teaming Arrangements Taking Shape for Y-12, Pantex Contract Recompete” [Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, Sept. 30, 2020] should have said that the National Nuclear Security Administration must onboard a new management and operations contractor for the Pantex Plant and Y-12 National Security Complex by Oct. 1, 2021.